Last week, in a post addressing real and alleged anti-"disengagement" incitement in Israel, I noted:
The Israeli government, particularly in its leftist iterations, has an unsavory history of staging ugly incitement against itself by its opponents in an effort to discredit them. This isn't some wild conspiracy theory. The most notorious example is somewhat shrouded in less reliable and fairly preposterous genuine conspiracy nonsense but stripped of all that, it's there out in the open.
In the months leading up to the Rabin assassination, a particular agent of the securitiy service was assigned the task of masquerading as a right wing extremist. . . .
As the left, so the so-called right. Today, we have this.
A police informant is responsible for much of the more extreme right-wing incitement in recent weeks, according to Maariv/NRG, which reported the government-backed provocation in front-page headlines Monday.
The agent provocateur was reportedly behind a recent bumper sticker which offensively invoked Prime Minister Sharon's deceased wife's name to imply that his death was near. The sticker read: "Sharon, Lily is waiting for you." He also recruited people to attend the road-blocking protests of last week, which created public anger against the anti-disengagement cause.
The police informant, Maariv reported, resides in a community in Judea and Samaria ("The West Bank"). Enjoying police "protection" because of the information he secretly transmits to them, the agent initiates extreme actions, ostensibly to "entrap" demonstrators. He reportedly plans more violent activities in the coming months, including vandalizing or setting fire to courthouses and other public buildings.
It's deja vu all over again. In more ways than one.
